“Sorcerers chiefly used the blood sacrifice; and while we hold this to
be evil, we cannot deny that this method is very efficient. Power
flashes forth from newly shed blood, instead of exuding slowly as by
our method. The victim's terror and anguish add keenness, and even
quite a small animal can yield enormous power.The great difficulty is
in the human mind controlling the power of the lower animal mind. But
sorcerers claim they have methods for effecting this and that the
difficulty disappears the higher her the animal used, and when the
victim is human disappears entirely. (The practice is an abomination
but it is so.)

Priests know this well; and by their auto-da-fé, with the victims' pain
and terror (the fires acting much the same as circles), obtained much
power. Of old the Flagellants certainly evoked power, but through not
being confined in a circle much was lost. The amount of power raised
was so great and continuous that anyone with knowledge could direct and
use it; and it is most probable that the classical and heathen
sacrifices were used in the same way. There are whispers that when the
human victim was a willing sacrifice, with his mind directed on the
Great Work and with highly skilled assistants, wonders ensued but of
this I would not speak.”

– From the Gardnerian Book of Shadows
from the section titled "Power"

Pictured Above: A depiction of an ancient
Celtic Pagan Human Sacrifice. We're assured stuff like this never
actually used to happen...by Neo-Pagans who don't know their own
history!

Undoubtedly the greatest area of controversy will arise when we look at
the subject of Neopaganism/Wicca and human sacrifice. On the one hand,
Wiccans decry any type of human sacrifice, and accuse such tales as
"right wing Christian propaganda" (By the way how come we never hear
about "left wing Christian propaganda"? It’s not like it doesn’t
exist.). If you mention human sacrifice to the average Wiccan be
prepared for the sonic blast that you will get as they call you a
"hatemonger", or if nothing else you'll get the standard "Wiccans
aren't Satanists" PR speech that they never get tired of repeating. But
if we look into the early days of Wicca, we come across this account
that seems to contradict the current official Wiccan PR:

Excerpt from At The Heart of
Darkness: Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today by John
Parker

"Parker has been an investigative journalist for many years and has
done investigative work for Life Magazine. Parker investigated the
history of the group that Gerald B Gardner, the Father of Modern
Witchcraft (Wicca), was involved with England. "Gerald Gardner was
already a practicing witch although he was almost sixty before he was
initiated into a coven which operated secretly near the New
Forest....The twentieth- century descendant of this New Forest coven
was said to have been made up of a mixture of well-to-do middle-class
people and poorer country folk. It performed its ritual on the full
moons of June, July and August and the latter was the day Hitler
scrapped the invasion plans. But then, he, too, was a moon person who
relied on the prophecies of his astrologers and fortune-tellers. The
group were deadly serious about their secret rituals to keep Hitler at
bay and decided beforehand that they could leave nothing to chance.

But to be 100 percent effective there would have to
be a human sacrifice. It is said that the oldest and frailest member of
the coven volunteered to die during the ritual, set for what proved to
be the coldest May night in many years. According to Francis King,
...all but the frail old man had covered their bodies with an ointment,
which was in reality a heavy grease used among other things to keep the
body warm. The coven was also known to use an hallucinogen, the fly
agaric mushroom, which could be eaten only in exceedingly small
does...The old volunteer duly collapsed and died, and it is not known
whether it was from an overdose of mushrooms, over-exhaustion or the
cold.

The great sacrifice had been made and the potency of
their magic could have been enhanced when two other members of the
coven died from pneumonia in the following two weeks, and two others
passed to the waiting room for reincarnation not long afterwards."
(pages 45-46 emphasis mine). John Parker. At The Heart of Darkness:
Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today. New York: Citadel Press
Books, 1993KK ISBN: 0-8065-1428-0. Paper bound with 334 pages, emphasis
mine.

There is also another account of this act from another source by an
interview of novelist Louis Wilkinson by Francis King:

" On at least one occasion the Hampshire witches [meaning Gardner's
coven] indulged in human sacrifice-but done
in such a way that there could be any legal unpleasantness. This
was done in May 1940, when Hitler's invasion was felt to be imminent.
The witches felt it essential that he be deterred from invasion plans
by a powerful ritual, the central
point of which was to be the death of a (volunteer) sacrificial victim.
The oldest and frailest member volunteered for sacrifice and left off
his protective grease so that he might die of the effects of exposure.
Unfortunately enough it was the coldest May night for many years, and
not only the volunteer but two other members of the coven died from
pneumonia within the next fortnight" (Crafting
the Art of Magic, Page 39, emphasis mine)

Gardner was so afraid to the point that he actually
began to sacrifice people to heathen gods to try to stop it! In
reality, it wasn't Gardner's magic spell or human sacrifices that
diverted Hitler, it was a bit of subterfuge by the allies that tricked
Hitler into thinking the USA was going to invade Greece. Those people
Gardner murdered died in vain.

Since this story didn't become known until 1953,
it's impossible to know if Wiccans invented this story to try to prove
their powers or if old people were needlessly killed, but the purport
that Wiccans used human sacrifice is the same. Also the idea that for a
spell to be "100 percent effective" their must be a human sacrifice is
a chilling thought indeed! Also notice about the part that it was "done
in such a way that there could be any legal unpleasantness". Gardner
knew what he was doing was illegal and made sure he didn't get caught.
It makes you wonder how many other Wiccan sacrificed people in such a
way they didn't get into "legal unpleasantness"? There were apparently
other people murdered by Gardner as well.

Even though Gardner and his misguided coven believed
the people they murdered stopped Hitler, this is not the case. Famed
British spymaster "Intrepid"" tricked Hitler into thinking the Allies
were going to invade Greece. To counter this the Nazis sent over a
dozen Wehrmacht divisions sweeping through the Balkans and into Greece
for the allied invasion that would never happen. This not only spared
England an invasion but it also paved the way for D-Day. It was the
sacrifice of thousands of soldiers...the majority of them of the
Judeao-Christian religion...who stopped Hitler. There were also
millions of Jews and Christians praying for Hitler to loose. Are we to
believe these millions of prayers and thousands of lives lost do
nothing to stop the Odinist Adolph Hitler, but a few old murdered
Wiccans deemed to be useless to Gardner’s coven did the trick?

Perhaps more shocking still is how Wiccans today upon learning of their
founder Gardner’s murder of his fellow Wiccans is how they attempt to
justify it, such as the author of Wiccan Roots, who has the audacity to
compare it to the brave allied soldiers who died to liberate Europe and
Asia.

Isn’t it possible that a misguided Wiccan who knows of Gardner’s
WWII sacrifice wouldn’t try a similar act to end, say, the war in Iraq?
It wouldn’t be that hard to lure a homeless person into a van with the
promise of drugs and alcohol. Let’s hope no renegade Neopagans ever try
it!

Blood Magic of Modern Neopaganism

While Neopagans certainly do not indulge in
ritual human sacrifice as the Pagans of the past, they still have blood
rituals in some branches of Wicca. Oh yes, blood magic occurs in
some Wiccan traditions (and while not all Wiccans practice it, some
do). Gavin Frost claims he was initiated into the highest order of
Wicca in a ceremony that involved cutting the wrist, which he still
claims to have the scar from. This is just one example. The Magic Power
of Witchcraft also describes a spell which involves the use of the
Wiccans own blood, albeit a small amount. A spell for protection
includes “three drops of your own blood, a teaspoon of your saliva, and
one ounce of burnt umber”(The Magic Power of Witchcraft by Gavin and
Yvonne Frost, page 20) as part of the ingredients for painting
the magic circles on the floor. There is also a section titled “Sex and
Blood Magic” which mentions this bizarre spell:

“When a little child is writing a note to Santa Claus and really wants
his letter to be paid serious attention, he may use a drop of his own
blood, carefully pricked from his forearm with a lot of wincing and
giggling, to seal the message...When you want to call on invisible
magic forces you can use exactly the same procedure. This is basic,
simple blood magic” (Ibid , page 21-22)

I’ve never known any child to seal a letter to Santa
Claus with their own blood. I’ve asked several people and no one else
has heard of this either. If it really was a custom , it seems to have
not been widely practiced. Perhaps the Frosts are just trying to
make their blood magic sound less psychotic, but comparing spells to
letter to Santa Claus at the North Pole doesn’t really help! Another
ritual from the Good Witch’s Bible
by the same authors reads:

"The woman cuts the man's forearm so that she draws blood. (The easiest
way to produce the necessary cut is to pinch the flesh with one hand
and cut with the other.) ... Man and woman each cut themselves; the man
allows his blood to fall on hers." Page 73 (this is part of a
description of a Wiccan wedding ritual!) As if all the swinging and sex
rituals the Frosts encourage their readers to participate in didn’t
give their followers AIDS, this "spell" would probably do it.

While some Wiccans will dismiss the Frosts as part
of the fringe, let us not forget that Gerald Gardner was a disciple of
Aleister Crowley, and that Crowley mentioned the use of menstrual blood
in magic in Liber Al Vel Legis. Crowley did indeed sacrifice animals,
and this is well documented. Crowley admitted to once killing a cat as
a teenager to see if it actually had nine lives. One of his favorites
was to baptize toads and crucify them during his “Gnostic Mass”. He was
also known to kill cats and goats as well. At best, he was no better
than the teenage “Emo” Satanist who kills hamsters.

Throughout his career, the rumors of human sacrifice
followed Crowley. Crowley owned a box of blood soaked dress ties that
were once owned by a Dr. Saxon, a man who is the best suspect for Jack
the Ripper. The reason he fled to Italy was thought to be because of
these rumors of ritual murder that followed him. If Crowley did not
practice child molestation and sacrifice he certainly did little to
discourage this image. In the Banned Lecture Crowley defends the
notorious child killer "Bluebeard" (Giles De Rais) and even likes to
draw comparisons to himself and said killer. It’s not hard to see why
the lecture was banned. Crowley and human sacrifice? I think it very
well could have happened. It's not impossible to believe Crowley, a
psychotic who believed he was a “demigod” and the anti-Christ, could
have advanced from sacrificing animals to sacrificing people.

Much of early Wicca is taken from Medieval
grimories. The ancient Grimories like the Greater Key of Solomon
contain animal sacrifices like this one:

“Of The Blood Of The Bat, Pigeon, And Other Animals.”
[First, after an "exorcism" is pronounced over the poor animal (which I
won't quote the words here lest someone be naive enough to try it), the
instructions of sacrificing are given:]

"After this, take the Needle or other convenient Instrument of Art, as
will be said later on, and pierce the bat in the vein which is in the
right wing; and collect the blood in a small vessel.."

Then more Hebrew words are given for the sorcerer to say, which I won’t
repeat here. Then the book says:

"Perfume it and keep it for use. The blood of other winged animals may
be taken in the same manner, with the proper solemnities." (The Greater
Key of Solomon, trans. By MacGreggor Mathers, Chapter XVI, Page 112)

"Concerning Sacrifices To The Spirits, And How They Should Be Made. In
many operations it is necessary to make some sort of sacrifice unto the
Demons, and in various ways. Sometimes white animals are sacrificed to
the good Spirits and black to the evil. Such sacrifices consist of the
blood and sometimes of the flesh. They who sacrifice animals, of
whatsoever kind they be, should select those which are virgin, as being
more agreeable unto the Spirits, and rendering them more obedient. When
blood is to be sacrificed it should be drawn also from virgin
quadrupeds or birds," (The Greater Key of Solomon Book Two Page 121
Chapter XXII.)

Certainly, the Greater Key of Solomon is not
officially a Wiccan book. But as noted by Adian Kelly and others, The
Greater Key of Solomon is a book where Gerald Gardner lifted many ideas
for Wicca from! Gavin and Yvonne Frost used to give away necklaces of a
seal from the Greater Key of Solomon with the purchase of one of their
books or mail order course. It was a favorite of Alex Sanders as well.
Almost any mail order occult supply catalog will list the book for
sale. It’s hard to find a serious student of Wicca or the occult who
doesn’t own a copy. Since Gardner was obviously familiar with the
Greater Key of Solomon, it's not hard to imagine he could have
practiced animal sacrifices.

Since Crowley’s writings plays a big part in Wicca, I think
this would give many Neopagans the green light for animal sacrifice. I
knew a man who rented a house out to a family of deadbeat Wiccans who
didn't pay him rent practically the whole 6 months they were there. He
was scared to evict them because they were “witches”, but even though I
was at the time still into the occult, by then I was over Wicca, and I
clued him into the fact that if they really had magic powers they would
be able to conjure up enough money to pay the rent. When he realized I
was right, he got eviction papers and even Diana and Cernunnos
couldn’t help them. When the landlord went to inspect the house after
they left, the man found a cat skull on a tree stump in the back yard.
No doubt the original owner of the cat skull (i.e. the cat) was an
unfortunate victim of animal sacrifice at the hands of these “witches”.

While most Wiccans don’t "officially" not to
endorse the sacrifice of animals or people, but their writings seem to
indicate this is not the case. In the Gardnerian Book of Shadows there
is a section about human and animal sacrifice being used to raise
“power” for casting spells. It reads:

“Sorcerers chiefly used the blood sacrifice; and while we hold this to
be evil, we cannot deny that this method is very efficient. Power
flashes forth from newly shed blood, instead of exuding slowly as by
our method. The victim's terror and anguish add keenness, and even
quite a small animal can yield enormous power. The great difficulty is
in the human mind controlling the power of the lower animal mind. But
sorcerers claim they have methods for effecting this and that the
difficulty disappears the higher her the animal used, and when the
victim is human disappears entirely...There are whispers that when the
human victim was a willing sacrifice, with his mind directed on the
Great Work and with highly skilled assistants, wonders ensued but of
this I would not speak.”

So from this passage we read that sorcerers of old
used both animal and even human sacrifices to raise power. Now, if we
were to take the whole “burning times” PR at face value, it would be
small wonder witches were put to death, if that were the case!
But since Wicca is a disorganized movement with no set rules,
scripture, or central authority, anything goes. There is really no way
anyone can say that absolutely
no solitary Wiccan or Wiccan group anywhere is committing animal or
even human sacrifices.

Alex Sander's Wicca covens were said to have used animal sacrifices.
Gavin Frost's covens were also reported to have made animal sacrifices
by rival Wiccans. There is no way to confirm this, and it could simply
be another case of slander resulting from Wiccan rivalry, but the
Frost’s writings certainly do mention using their own blood in
rituals. Ray T. Malbrough is a graduate of Raymond
Buckland's most prestigious mail order Wicca school and operates a both
“hoodoo church” and a Wicca coven. This Wiccan not only admits he
uses animal sacrifices but even encourages his readers to do likewise
in his book!

"It has been my personal experience that no matter how opposed an
individual may be to animal sacrifice, he or she will not hesitate for
one moment to avail themselves of its power when all other approaches
have failed...Though it is possible to perform acts of magick without
animal sacrifice or sex practices it is hard work. Witches know this
from firsthand experience."[ From The Magical Power of the Saints: Evocation
and Candle Rituals by Ray T. Malbrough ISBN: 1567184561
Llewellyn Publications; (August 1998)]

Wiccans will indeed sacrifice animals if need be, if
we accept the writings of Sybil Leek. She gives an account of animal
sacrifice conducted on her behalf in her "autobiography", Diary of a
Witch:

"I remember going to a little school for a few weeks but I caught
diphtheria and was brought home to die...One night my grandmother came
to my bedside. I could not talk. She had my favorite pet owl in her
hand. 'You love this best of all she said', I nodded weakly. 'You are
very sick you know that don't you?' Again I tried to say yes. 'If you
had to choose between your pet owl and yourself which would you
choose?' I could not answer. I loved that owl...'The owl will die.'
said Grandmother very gently, 'It is part of the price you pay for
living.' The next morning I [felt better]...I never saw the owl again."
(Diary of a Witch by Sybil Leek, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Engelwood Clifs,
NJ, Copyright 1968 pgs 14-15)

Yes, at least some Wiccans WILL sacrifice animals if
they feel the ends justify the means...such as sacrificing an animal
believing it can cure a child of a disease. I know many Wiccans will
say "But they were trying to save a little girl's life!" If the story
actually even happened (Leek wasn’t known for her truth telling
abilities, so chances are it didn't), that would be true. There's been
this great breakthrough in medicine called "the Reinasance"...there's
no such thing as magic, so don't kill any owls. Take your kid to the
Doctor. Kay?

A WICCAN "MAGICKAL" ABORTION

Still another instance of Wiccan human sacrifice is described by Alex
Sanders, the founder of Alexandrian Wicca. Sanders claimed he could
perform abortions by casting spells on pregnant women, killing the
unborn child. Sanders related one such instance in the book What
Witches Do:

"There was a girl who recently tried everything and had no money..she
really believed I could stop it. I pointed to her womb, without
touching her or giving her anything to take and said, 'Yes, it's
stopped. It won't grow anymore. You will have a heavy period, and by
the end of September, you will be clear of it...Another girl, three
months pregnant--I got the clinic fee reduced by more than half for her
but she still couldn't afford it and she was desperate. So I told
her,'I don't care if you believe me or not--it's stopped!' Michael
[Sander's "spirit guide"] was shouting in my mind, 'Three, three,
three!' I told her, 'Within three days you'll be perfectly alright. "

If the idea of using Witchcraft to kill unborn children doesn't sound
bad enough, Sanders further tells something even more disturbing.
Sander goes on to describe the spell he uses to perform this abortion
spell (which I will not repeat here so no one reading this will try
it), and then says:

"I realize I am taking a life-I have to absorb that spirit into my
being and become responsible for it. That's where magic and wisdom come
in." (What Witches Do, by Janet and Stewart Farrar, 2nd ed.,
pgs.126-127 emphasis mine, Pheonix Publishing Inc. isbn 0-919345-17-4)

So rather than dismiss an unborn fetus as not being
human as many pro-choicers do, Sanders was fully aware he was taking a
human life in the killing an unborn child! He then believed he could
absorb the baby's soul into himself like some sort of spirit vampire!
If Wiccans believe in doing anything they want bar "harming none", what
would we call what was done to the unborn child? OK, sure the story is bullcrap,
since there's no such thing as magic, and like Leek, Sanders was a
hoaxer.
Sanders certainly lied about many things! There is probably no way to
know if he actually performed any abortions, magical or otherwise, but
still the claim seems to fly in the face of everything Wiccans claim
about themselves. The next paragraph after this in the book cited
quickly goes on to talk about the awesome responsibility of being a
white magicians and how Black magicians literally get away with murder.
It seems strange how using witchcraft to perform an abortion could be
anything but black magic, even if the baby's soul wasn't absorbed by
the magician.

And I can also see how many occultists would try such a thing hoping
they could absorb the fetuses soul to give themselves more power.
Abortion was practiced in Pagan times, many times resulting in both the
death of the mother and the unborn baby. This barbaric practice was
made illegal in the lands where Christians placed the Gospel in
people’s hearts. It wasn’t until the 20th Century during the Nazi
Regiem that Odinist Adolph Hitler made abortion legal once again. The
supreme Court in 1973, following in Hitler’s footsteps, legalized baby
murder on demand.

While the "constructionist movement" known as Wicca doesn't advocate
human sacrifice per se, the early writers of Wicca seem to indicate
that in the ancient times, a leader of a coven was elected for 7 or 9
years depending on the source, and then killed. Sybil Leek and Gerald
Gardner and the Frosts mention it in their writings. For instance, they
say when William Rufus, son of William the Conqueror was killed on a
hunting trip, this was really a Wiccan sacrifice. Of course, William
Rufus really was killed in an accident, and Wicca did not exist then
(so it it wasn't a Wiccan sacrifice, duh), but that is what they say
happened. But this would still mean Wiccans, if they believe their own
(ridiculous) revised history, have to admit at one time they offered
human sacrifices!

Some Wiccans have said that John F. Kennedy was really a Wiccan High
Priest, and that his assassination was a really a sacrifice to
Diana…more Witchful thinking. In reality he was a Roman Catholic
president murdered by a communist. However, even though the deaths of
people like William of Orange were not Wiccan related sacrifices, there
have been leaders sacrificed as part of an erroneous belief that they
were part of an ancient religion.

A WICCAN TRADIIONHEAD SACRIFCED!

"In The Rebirth Of Witchcraft, Doreen elaborates upon the circumstances
surrounding the death of Cochrane: the bald facts are that he died at
the Summer Solstice of 1966 of an overdose. Craft tradition believes
that he became in fact, and of his own choice, the male ritual
sacrifice which is sometimes symbolically enacted at the height of
Summer. " (SOURCE:Lecture on Wicca given by Julia Philips in 1991)

Robert Cochrane ate belladonna leaves to commit ritual suicide and
sacrifice himself to appease the gods and goddess of Wicca. It’s
unlikely there are many human sacrifices going on in Wicca. If there
were, no one outside of serial killers would want to join! I’m not
trying to say that human sacrifice is a regular part of Wiccan
practice, because it’s not. It is certainly a rarity.

...However, it has happened.

Of course, it is impossible to know how many
men and women have taken their own lives or been murdered outright in
the name of human sacrifice. I knew a girl named Gina who was a Wiccan
to the extreme. She was never seen without her big giant pentagram
necklace around her neck. Her prosperity magic was so powerful it got
her a job as cleaning help in a gay bar. She could ramble off things
about the occult off the top of her head that would have dumbfounded
Dr. Bombay from Bewitched.

She was very much into Aleister Crowley, which is no doubt why she was
addicted to drugs. I mentioned her on the page about Crowley. She left
her job, and I later heard through the grapevine that she went into
rehab several times, had a nervous breakdown somewhere along the way,
and eventually died of a drug overdose. She was only 26. She left
behind a husband and two young children. I cannot help but wonder if
her overdose was really an accident, or something much more sinister,
like the death of Robert Cochran.

PART II ANCIENT (AND NOT SO ANCIENT) PAGANS AND HUMAN SACRIFICE

Neopagans call themselves such to avoid being linked with the dark
actions of Pagans in ancient times. Yet at the same time, any Christian
alive today is as guilty of the Inquisititon or the Salem Witch Trials
as someone who lives centuires ago.

What evidence do we have that such sacrifices actually took place and
isn't alleged "xtian" propaganda to slander Wicca? For one thing, the
ancient mummified corpses of men, carefully preserved in the English
peat known as the "bog men" of England, were the victims of ritual
pagan sacrifice! This conclusion doesn't come from Fundamentalist
Christian ministers, it comes from scientists. So, if Wiccans want to
believe they are an ancient English cult, they would have to admit
pagans made sacrifices.

At Stonehenge the skeletons of human sacrifice victims were found
buried there in the 20th Century, although this fact is seldom
mentioned. Before the time of Christ, every ancient culture had a cult
of Ba'al. Ba'al demanded human sacrifice. Scholars even today are
baffled that a culture as advanced as Greece had a cult of Ba'al.
Writing from the time note that during the ceremonies, a loud drum was
beaten, to drown the cries and screams of the poor mothers who lost
their infants.

Yet another human sacrifice cult was the cult of Moloch. Moloch was an
iron statue who was heated until he was red hot. Then a live baby was
placed into the statue’s arms. Small wonder Jehovah of the Bible warned
the nation of Israel not to let their children be sacrificed to him! By
the way, the wife of Ba'al was Astarte, a goddess worshiped by Wiccans
and other Neopagans. And for that matter, Ba'al and Moloch are
worshiped in some pagan groups as well (but without the sacrifices).
When we consider the bloodthirsty rituals of Pagans in ancient times,
is it really hard to see why they abandoned this murderous evil for the
light of Christ?

HINDU SACRIFICES

Desperate to trace their roots back to an authentic pagan culture, some
Wiccans are now beginning to claim their lineage through Hinduism
(which is completely ridiculous). So, if we accept the latest claim of
Wiccan heritage (i.e., history revision), it still has roots in human
sacrifice! I think it’s extremely unlikely that Wiccans will start
practicing human sacrifice, but Wiccans and other Neopagans should
acknowledge that the ancient Pagans they idolize did these practices
when they are constantly demonizing Christians.

While the "reconstructionist movement" known as Wicca doesn't advocate
human sacrifice per se, the early writers of Wicca seem to indicate
that in the ancient times, a leader of a coven was elected for 7 years,
and then killed. Both Sybil Leek and Gerald Gardner mention it in their
writings. For instance, they say when William of Orange, son of William
the Conqueror, (BTW) was killed on a hunting trip, this was really a
Wiccan sacrifice. Of course, it never really happened, but that is what
they say happened. So Wiccans, if they believe their own revised
history, have to admit at one time they offered human sacrifices! I
remember reading where some Wiccans have said that John F. Kennedy was
really a Wiccan High Priest, and that his assassination was a really a
sacrifice to Diana…more witch-ful thinking

The Pagan religions of the Past which Neoapagnism draws it’s
inspiration from has a blood soaked history. All across the world,
Pagans engaged in the most deplorable of practices. While Christians
are falsely accused of having wiped out a village of 400 people for
witchcraft, Pagans often killed this many or ten times more just for
sport! If the sole reason for a would be witch or warlock to abstain
from the Christian faith is the Crusades or the "Burning Times", then
they will need a new reason.

Yes, it was wrong for people to be executed for sorcery or heresy by
the civil authorities in ancient times, but this clearly is not like
the insane superstitious beliefs of ancient Pagans that thought
murdering humans as a gift "to the gods". Even modern Neopaganism is
not free from the blood of innocents. There are still survivors of the
Judeo-Christian holocaust around, and even Wicca’s very founder killed
people in a futile attempt for magic power.

PAGAN INDIA

Human sacrifices were common place in India , like they were in many
Pagan cultures. The practice was finally outlawed after the British
colonization of India 250 years ago. Worshipers of Shiva and Kali, and
other lifeless idols used to offer human sacrifices until the British
officially banned this barbaric and evil practice. But the Hindus found
a way to get around this by offering a corpse of someone recently
deceased instead. Some say it never really stopped, and was still
pacticed remote parts of India. On the 6th of September of 2001, Indian
Newspapers reported that a couple was arrested in Bharna, Ghaziabad
India, for sacrificing a baby because, ironically, they wanted to
conceive.

They were told by a Tantric Hindu priest that by doing this barbaric
act, they would be blessed with a male child. The couple kidnaped an
eighteen month old baby, and as per the Pagan Priest’s instruction,
then bludgeoned the baby "to appease the goddess Kali".. The woman
undressed and bathed her body with the blood of the poor baby. Many
Wiccans also worship this "goddess", and likewise engage in the sex
rituals of Tantric Yoga. The couple was arrested and charged with
murder. (BMB) The Priest apparently went scot free.

Later in October of that year, a similar child sacrifice was reported
in October. A seven year old boy was beheaded by his uncle and aunt at
the Baba Hardev temple located about 50 miles from the provincial
capital Lucknow, India. The boy had been reported missing earlier by
his father, Krishna-Murari. This couple too, had sacrificed their
nephew per instructions from a Tantric Hindu priest, either to conceive
a child, or because they thought it would cure a local disease
outbreak. The poor boy taken to the temple, forced to have a ritual
bath to "purify" him (not unlike the purifying baths Wiccans,
Santerios, and other occultists do), and was then beheaded before the
temple deity...a goddess idol.

The couple then offered their nephew’s blood and head to the lifeless
idol. The beheaded body was later thrown into the nearby pond. The
murder weapon, a spade that was used to chop off the boy's head, was
recovered later from the pond, but the head was never found.(H) In
January of 2002 it was reported a Hindu priest sacrificed an 8-year-old
girl in India as part of a ritual. These stories got practically zero
coverage in the Western press, which is another example of how the
media goes out of its way to not be anti-any religion, except
anti-Christian.

In 2005 several parents were arrested for a mock human sacrifice
involving infants. In the ritual, the parents briefly allow their
children to buried in a pit covered with leaves, a Hindu priest says
some words, and then the children are removed before they suffocate. No
doubt in ancient times, the children were actually allowed to die. Even
though no children died in this recent incident, Indian authorities
were not amused. Even though the practice is illegal in India, it still
continues. According to an interview with Biswajit Giri, a 45-year-old
Hindu mystic, there is a sect of Hinduism, although small, "...still
believes that to achieve supernatural magical powers one needs to
sacrifice a child at the altar.

The practice of human sacrifice ... has not died down completely and is
being carried out in many select temples secretly." This cult, known as
Tantra, worships goddesses like Kamakhya and Kali. Like Wicca and other
Neopagan religions, followers of Tantra Hinduism believe that they can
have magical powers to accomplish things like finding buried treasure ,
placing curses on their enemies, and getting someone to fall in love
with them (sound familiar?).

A lot of Wiccans like to think they practice "Tantric" sex rituals.
Tantrick Hindus believe that to really get the goddesses to notice you,
you have to offer a human sacrifice, preferably a child. According to a
newspaper interview with Pradeep Sharma, (a researcher on tantricism),
"There was a temple called Kasai Kathi [which literally means
"slaughter house"] in eastern Assam’s Sadia area where it was said
human sacrifices were performed.." Fortunately the temple was
completely destroyed in 1950 by an earthquake and a flood ("acts of
God", if you will). Some Tantrics have started making six foot tall
effigies out of flour to be sacrificed to the idols. But obviously some
Hindus have to have the real thing(AFP).

In 2003 two children were sacrificed Tripura, India after a Hindu had a
dream that offering human sacrifices would lead him to buried
treasures. So much for fear of "Karmic retibution" we’re always hearing
about. Hindu Priest Amritlal Mazumdar tried to offer his 18 month old
baby daughter as a sacrifice to his idol. He was slicing his daughter’s
neck with a razor when the poor baby’s screams were heard and rescued
from being sacrificed. That night, the goddess idol went hungry.

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GREEK HUMAN SACRIFICES!

The Elysian mystery cults had
strict penalties for anyone who they perceived as trying to steal their
secrets. Once two Argive teenagers (who were also Pagans) were caught
trying to sneak a peak at the secret initiation ceremony of the cult.
Rather than receiving a pat on the head and told to go home and
given a “Blessed Be”, they were both immediately put to death to
appease the "gods" (idols) by the members of the cult.

The ancient Pagan Greek historian Pausanias visited a temple of Zeus on
Mount Lykaion in Arcadia. Pausanias was investigating rumors of ghastly
rituals being performed at the peak supposedly by a people whom the
Greeks described as "older than the moon". Pausanias discovered the
rituals involved a yearly murder, dismemberment, and communal eating of
a child at the top of the mountain. "I could see no pleasure in delving
into this sacrifice," Pausanias wrote. Some of the more enlightened
Pagans were repulsed by these doings, which is why Christianity would
flourish in these lands that wanted an end to these barbaric practices!
This is why Luke wrote his Gospel with the Greeks in mind. Jesus was
the perfect man that had been sought by the Grecian philosophers like
Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato. Such a man could never be the product
of a Pagan society.

This Acadian cult was not the only cult to practice human
sacrifices, but there also existed a cult of Ba’al in Greece.
Ba'al was an idol (Pagan god) that demanded infant sacrifice. One such
mass ritual murder of children took place in 310 BC. Shockingly, 300
upper class children were killed in order to appease Ba'al for a
proposed expedition. The parents of the poor children were reputed to
have placed the infants in the outstretched arms of the idol (god)
after the child had been sacrificed by a Pagan priest. The poor child's
corpse was then allowed to fall into a pit of fire.

While Pagan apologists are now trying to say the graveyard was merely a
child graveyard, the evidence doesn't support this, for one reason
because the graves are of infants and toddlers, not older children.
Many of the inscriptions can be found on the grave markers to Baal that
say ‘for having granted his prayer’, which is proof that the children
were offerings for specific goals (spells). Roman historian Diodorus
Siculus describes how the ancient Carthaginians sacrificed their
children in times of crisis to gain favor from Pagan god Ba'al and the
Pagan goddess Tanit, his "wife". According to Siculus, a loud
drum was beaten to drown out the cries of the mothers as their babies
were killed....killed in a pointless and superstitious Pagan
sacrifice! What a wonderful day it must have been in Greece when
Christian rulers outlawed such barbaric practices!

PAGAN ROMAN SACRIFICES AND DIANA'S "DUE SACRIFICE"

Rome, supposedly the most advanced of the ancient
Pagan nations, was far from non-violent. We’ve mentioned in chapter 5
how the heathen Romans were fascinated by the gladiator games, and how
it took the death of a Christian monk to finally put an end to this
horrible practice. Before then, the Pagans feasted their eyes and ears
on the sights and sounds of murder. The Coluseum stands today as a
testament to the barbarism that was Pagan Rome.

According to author Peter Berresford Ellis, to mark the gand opening of
this death factory in circa 80 A.D., a total of 9,000 animals were
killed in fights with men and women. The number of men and women
slaughtered that day is not known, but no doubt it was in the thousands
as well. In the early days of the Pagan Roman Empire 300
prisoners had to fight to the death to the entertainment of Pagan
onlookers, and 1200 women and men were killed by wild animals in a
single day at the Circus Maximus. As a special feature during this
Pagan event, 20 girls were forced to have sex with wild animals, while
the Pagan crowds cheered. Trajan is recorded to have put as many as
5,000 pairs of gladiators who were then forced to fight to the death.
During the “intermission” of these Pagan proceedings, sometimes as many
as 10,000 criminals were put to death. And this was at the time when
Pagan Rome was considered at it’s “greatest”!

Romans also practiced the ritual killing of humans
for religious purposes , not only for entertainment. During the era of
the late Republic and into the early years of the Roman Empire,
children were sacrificed so that spirits could be conjured for fortune
telling. In 480 B.C. in what is considered the best known account
of ritual human sacrifice accord before Salamis. Pagan Roman deities of
war had to be placated with blood, and references to this occuring in
the Second Punic wars and 216 B.C. have survived.

One account mentions the victims being buried alive under the Forum
Boarium. Sacrifiecs were still being made during Plutarch’s lifetime,
from 46 A.D. to 120 A.D. Prisoners of war were offered to the gods many
Neopagans claim to worship nowadays. Jugartha, King of the Numidians,
Celtic chief Vercingetotrix, and their families, were sacrificed to
Mars...but not after being held prisoner for 6 horrible years in an
underground prison below the Capitol. [The Druids pgs. 155-156]

The Book of Shadows has a reference in the Charge of the goddess about
ancient times when her worshipers gave her “due sacrifice”. But
what was this “due sacrifice”? In Pre-Christian times, young men who
wanted to be priests of Diana were castrated at the foot of the hill on
which Diana’s temple lay. The youths then ran up the hill with their
severed genitalia in hand to the top. If they made it without passing
out and bleeding to death, they tossed their genitalia onto a fire as a
sacrifice to the lifeless, man-made idol Diana, and had their wound
sealed with burning pitch. This is a far cry from Wiccans who think
they can become Priests of Diana after a few mail order lessons! Folks,
Paganism was not warm and cuddly like many of you had been led to
believe! The worship of Diana involved castrated Eunuchs, not
swinging bisexual Wiccans!

Asian Blood Rituals And Sacrifices

In China, human sacrifices took place in ancient times, often for the
dedication of a building, bridge, or even a temple! The idea was the
sacrifice would appease spirits who would in turn make the building
structurally sound. In practically every ancient Pagan culture, both
eastern and western, this superstitious practice occurred. Legend has
it that the Great wall of China, built around 300 B.C. and about 1500
miles long, is entombed with the bodies of thousands of people offered
in sacrifice. The superstitious Chinese of today claim it is the most
haunted structure in the world! Chinese Kings, upon their death, were
offered human sacrifices of their slaves to “aid them in the
afterlife”. (10) The idea of having to spend eternity serving a King as
a slave must have indeed seemed like Hell to the Emperor’s servants!

The Pagan Wa tribe,who live near the Burma-China border were
once known for their "savage" behavior and were ferocious headhunters
right up until the 1970's!

Asia has less evidence of sacrifices taking place
than other parts of the world, but they did happen. In 1596 in Japan,
the followers of the goddess worshiping Pagan religion known as
Shinto, as well as Buddhists, began the persecution of
Christians known as the “Kirishtan Holocaust”. The first victims were
executed by crucifixion. The youngest martyr was just 12 years old. An
estimated 1 million followers were killed over a period of 260 years
which did not end until Japan was defeated by the Allies during World
War II! Unlike Wiccans, the Christians of Japan really were part of a
religion that went underground because of persecution.

In Malyasia a ritual with daggers is performed every
year by Hindus. Although the ritual is symbolic, it is believed in
ancient times the combatants actually killed one another, like in
Rome’s gladiator games.

On the Pacific Islands sacrifices of men and women to volcanoes
were made in attempts to appease gods and goddess. In Hawaii, the Pagan
goddess “Pele” was sometimes offered human sacrifices until Christians
put an end to the barbaric practice. Christian missionaries
educated the islanders so these barbaric superstitions came to an end
after thousands of years. Head hunting occurred on many of these
islands as well. Headhunting was practiced in historic times in parts
of China, India, Nigeria, Nuristan, Myanmar, Borneo, Indonesia, the
Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Micronesia, Melanesia, New Zealand, and the
Amazon Basin, as well as among certain tribes of the Celts and
Scythians of ancient Europe. In Borneo during WWII many
American G.I.'s were shocked to see Dayak tribesmen display the
shrunken heads of Japanese soldiers. Even as recently as 1972, a
Christian Nun was killed and decapitated on a remote Philippine Island.

Aboriginal Australia

While we think of the aborigines as the people of
Australia who hunted kangaroos with boomerangs, like all primitive
Pagan people they too indulged in the barbaric practice of infant
sacrifice. An Aboriginal mother would kill and eat her first born
child, which was means for obtaining more. It makes about as much sense
as cutting of your own hand and eating it, but this is the kind of
backward, superstitious reasoning Pagans of ancient times used.

“In hard summers, the new-born
children were all eaten by the Kaura tribe in the neighborhood of
Adelaide, according to Dr McKinley. In 1933 I was able to talk to old
men who had eaten human flesh. The chief of Yam Island described to me
how he had eaten finely-chopped man-meat mixed with crocodile-meat, at
his initiation. He added that it had made him sick. The purpose, as he
put it, was ‘to make heart come strong inside.’... In the Wotjobaluk
tribe, a couple who already had a child might kill their new-born and
feed its muscle-flesh to the other one to make it strong.

The baby was killed ritually, by striking its head against the shoulder
of its elder brother or sister. Human flesh-eating
among many tribes was a sign of respect for the dead. At a Dieri
burial, relatives received, in strict order of precedence, small
portions of the body-fat to eat. ‘We eat him,’ a tribesman said,
‘because we knew him and were fond of him.’ But revenge cannibalism is
typified in the custom of the Ngarigo tribe, who ate the flesh of the
hands and feet of slain enemies, and accompanied the eating with loud
expressions of contempt for the people killed." (Adam in Ochre, by
Colin Simpson Angus & Robertson)

It’s hard to imagine anyone would kill their baby
and eat it, but there you have it! Hopefully by now Christian
missionaries have educated these people and converted them from these
barbaric Pagan practices!

Celtic Sacrifices
Even though Wiccans and Neopagans have a sanitized
view of Celtic history, Celts did indeed
performed human sacrifice as part of their religious rituals. And,
since the Druids were the religious/scholar/priestly social class, they
almost certainly would have participated in human sacrifices and
officiated at them. While the Druids left no writings behind concerning
these practices, we do have a description of Celtic human sacrifices
from classical Greek and Roman writers, such as Strabo (64/63 B.C - 21
A.D.) as recorded in his Geography (4.1.13):

The Romans put a stop both to these customs and to the ones connected
with sacrifice and divination, as they were in conflict with our own ways. The Druids
would, for example, they would strike a man who had been consecrated
for sacrifice in the back with a sword, and make prophecies based on
his death-spasms; and they would not sacrifice without the presence of
the Druids. Other kinds of human sacrifices have been reported as well:
some men they would shoot dead with arrows and impale in the temples;
or they would construct a huge figure of straw and wood, and having
thrown cattle and all manner of wild animals and humans into it, they
would make a burnt offering of the whole thing (trans. by Benjamin
Fortson, in Koch and Carey 1995, 18).

There are also the writings of Julius Cesar that describe this barbaric
Pagan practice. Julius Caesar (writing c. 15 March, 44 B. C. E.) De
Bello Gallico 6.16):
“All the people of Gaul are completely devoted to religion [meaning the
ancient Pagan Druidism], and for this reason those who are greatly
affected by diseases and in the dangers of battle either sacrifice
human victims or vow to do so using the Druids as administrators to
these sacrifices, since it is judged that unless for a man's life a
man's life is given back, the will of the immortal gods cannot be
placated. In public affairs they have instituted the same kind of
sacrifice. Others have effigies of great size interwoven with twigs,
the limbs of which are filled up with living people which are set on
fire from below, and the people are deprived of life surrounded by
flames. It is judged that the punishment of those who participated in
theft or brigandage or other crimes are more pleasing to the immortal
gods; but when the supplies of this kind fail, they even go so low as
to inflict punishment on the innocent” (trans. By Anne Lea, in Koch and
Carey 1995. Page 22).

A few modern scholars try to brand the writings of
Cesar as "political propaganda", and claim the Celts and Druids never
engaged in ritual sacrifice, some even go so far to make the ludicrous
claim Celts didn’t even practice capital punishment...not even for
murder! This is ridiculous, and the evidence speaks to the contrary.
Cesar didn't have to justify the conquest of Britain to anybody, the
Romans were always eager to conquer new lands, and so he did not need
to cook up tales about human sacrifice. The “bog men” of Britain
mentioned...corpses preserved in peat bogs for thousands of
years...attest to the fact that they were the victims of Celtic human
sacrifice.

The victims were killed in a ritualistic manner: given a last meal,
then stabbed, bludgeoned, and strangled, killed three times over,
probably to the Celt’s triune god. We also need to keep in mind that
during this same period in history the Mayans, Aztecs, and their
cousins were sacrificing humans to beat the band, Hindus were sacrificing people to Shiva
and Kali (and occasionally still do today!), and Ba'al and Molech were
thirsty for the blood of infants. People in Scandinavia were
sacrificing animals and people to the gods now worshiped by modern day
Odinists. Polynesians were throwing humans into volcanoes thinking it
would appease the “volcano gods” like the goddess Pele’. Why should it
be so unbelievable that Celts in Britain were also involved in this
practice, considering all Pagans worldwide were doing it? It’s yet
another case of Neopagan history revision.

One of the most famous of these bog men is the “Lindow
Man” found in 1984. Leading Celtic
scholars Dr. Anne Ross and Dr. Don Robbins concluded that it was a
Druid Prince killed as part of a ritualist human sacrifice, although it
was later concluded he was not a Prince or King, but a commoner.
Scotland provides some of the best evidence of ritual human sacrifice,
mostly occurring at Beltane.

The less than spectacular Stonehenge is a
favorite image in the minds of Wiccans, Druids, and Neopagans.
Occultists of all kinds love to fantasize that it is a temple to the
Earth Mother, and perhaps even built by the survivors of Atlantis. But
Stonehenge was neither of these, and was actually the site of human
sacrifices...hardly a thing to be proud of. Excavations in the 20th
century have uncovered several skeletons at the site; the victims of
human sacrifice.

Even though modern day Neopagans/Wicans paint their
gods as peace loving and friendly, Celtic gods were actually blood
thirsty and demanded human sacrifices. The Celtic god Teutates (also
called Albiorix and Toutorix) was regarded as the Celtic equivalent to
Mars and Mercury, and the superstitious Celts thought he could only be
appeased by a blood sacrifice. Taranis, Celt god of lightning, was also
appeased with human sacrifices of human beings being burnt alive.

Esus was a usually pictured as a bull with three canes flying over him
and is sometimes identified as Cernunnos. He was the god of the
underworld and also of wealth. He too demanded human sacrifice like
Teutates and Tarnis, but his victims were hung to death on trees
instead. [The Celts by Gerhard Herm, pg 156-157] How ironic indeed
Wiccans somehow think their Celtic gods and goddesses were “peace
loving” and the God of the Christians was brutal!

HUMAN SACRIFICES AT STONEHENGE!
Stonehenge was already ancient when the Druids came along.
Stonehenge...was it just a primitive temple for rituals at the
Equinoxes and Solstices...or something much worse?

"The grave with the skeletons
remains inside, piled on top of each other. Workers digging a trench
for a water pipe close to Stonehenge have made an amazing discovery.
They have found the skeletons of six Bronze Age people who died about
4,500 years ago. The skeletons were all buried together, in a single
grave, close to the famous ancient stone circle. They were four adults
and two children. Four clay pots, a flint arrowhead and a toggle made
from bone were found in the grave with the skeletons."

"A view from above of the Amesbury Archer skeleton, still in the
ground, with other objects just visible around the bones. The latest
find comes soon after another exciting discovery in the area - a
skeleton known as 'The Amesbury Archer' or 'The King of Stonehenge' was
found this time last year, in May 2002. He was found with close
to a hundred other items buried with him, including arrowheads and gold
hair decorations, the oldest gold found in the UK so far. Who knows
what other secrets are waiting to be discovered around these incredible
rocks? We'll let you know if anything else is found. Why not visit
Stonehenge to see the giant stones for yourself? The museums listed
below also have objects found in the area from the Bronze Age on
show." by Anra Kennedy

Nordic and Viking Sacrifices

Sacrifice could comprise of inanimate objects, animals or humans.
Amongst the Norse, there were two types of human sacrifice; that
performed for the "gods" (idols) at religious festivals, and retainer
sacrifice that was performed at a funeral. An eye-witness account of
retainer sacrifice survives in Ibn Fadlan's account of a Rus ship
burial, where a slave-girl had volunteered to accompany her lord to the
next world. One can't help but feel sorry for that poor girl.
Reports of religious sacrifice are given by Tacitus, Saxo Grammaticus
and Adam of Bremen.

According to Adam of Bremen, the Swedish kings sacrificed males
every ninth year during the Yule sacrifices at the Temple at Uppsala.
The Swedes had the right not only to elect kings but also to depose
them, and both king Domalde and king Olof Trätälja are said to have
been sacrificed after years of famine."

Nordic Paganism of ancient times was known for it’s human sacrifice as
well. Prisoners captured from England were taken back to Norway. There
they were tied to trees to die, as a sacrifice to their god Odin.
The Heimskringla tells of Swedish King Aun or Ani who sacrificed nine
of his sons in an effort to prolong his life until his subjects stopped
him from killing his last son Egil (in some accounts he simply ran out
of sons to sacririce). But in exchange for the 10 years each son
brought him, he was said to have grown weak, and eventually couldn’t
leave his bed. When a man dies of old age with no apparent illness,
this is called “Ana sott” (Ani’s ailment) by the Swedes. The legend
probably has some basis in fact, and harkened back to a king who
sacrificed his own children to Odin in the unsuccessful attempt to add
years to his own life.

Odinism was the religion favored by Hitler and the Nazis,
and indoctrination began with the youth of Germany. Hitler wanted
to shape the minds of the young and mold them into Nazi Neopagans.
Reinhold Kerstan was one such Hitler Youth, and relates the persecution
and humiliation he had to endure as a Christian in his autobiography,
Blood and Honor. In it, he tells of his first encounter of Nazi state
run Odinism. The Nazis invented the term “Gottglaubige” to describe it.
“Gottglaubige” literally means “believers in god”, but it is not a
reference to the Judea-Christian God, but rather the ancient Pagan gods
of Germany. The Gottglaubige believed in the state and the mystical
religion of an Aryan super race. [ Blood and Honor pg 99]

“When I began third grade our religion teacher announced that he would
not tell us those stories about the cruel Jewish God or that meek and
mild Jesus. Instead he would teach us about our original gods - - Thor
and Zeus and others, the gods of the old Germanic tribes from which our
nation sprang. I was appalled. Even in my youthful understanding, this
was going too far.”[ Blood and Honor, pg 129]

In a way, the 6 million Jews and 10 million Christians burned in the
ovens of concentrations camps like Dachau and Auschwitz might be
thought of as human sacrifices to Hitler’s version of the Neopagan
religion of Odinism and his quest to rebuild the Aryan race of Atlantis
prophesied by Blavatsky.

Native American Shamanism and Sacrifice

Human sacrifice was certainly not exclusive to the
Old World. "Shamanism" is another popular new
age activity, as well as being a source for Wiccans to borrow from. A
"shaman" is a word used to denote a Native American "medicine man".
Shamanism is a collective term for the various magical and religious
practices of the Native American Indians. What many new-agers and
Wiccans don't realize is many ancient Native Americans were
practitioners of human sacrifice and cannibals as well! The Incans and
Mayans offered human sacrifices as did the Aztecs, who were perhaps the
most bloodthirsty.

Yet another testament to this was announced in
December of 2004, when a tomb filled with decapitated bodies was
discovered in Mexico's 2,000 year-old "Pyramid of the Moon" located 35
miles from present day Mexico City. Archeologists say the site was a
place of “horrifically gory sacrifices”. Saburo Sugiyama, one of the
archeologists leading the dig said, "It is hard to believe that the
ritual consisted of clean, symbolic performances -- it is most likely
that the ceremony created a horrible scene of bloodshed with sacrificed
people and animals." Also found were the bound bodies of animals like
eagles, dogs and other animals. The reason for the sacrifices was not
to raise consciousness of the Earth Mother, or to protect the
environment, they were for celebrating state power! The ritualistic
murders were performed during the expansion of one of the city's major
monuments. Archeologists say this suggests the government wanted to
symbolize a growing “sacred political power”. The excavation team said
in a statement., "Contrary to some past interpretation, militarism was
apparently central to the city's culture." (ASU Magazine Online -
Spring 2005 Vol. 8 No. 4)

So rather than being a bunch of stoned spirit
talkers the way most occultniks envision Native American tribes, the
Aztecs were actually ruthless, bloodthirsty conquerors! I hope Wiccans
and New Agers keep this in mind when they try to imitate the religious
practices of these cultures from a glossy covered book from Lewellyn.
When they decry “American Christo-facism” just because some
politician somewhere dared to attend a prayer breakfast, let them
remember the rituals of the Aztecs! [ By the way, “American
Christo-facism” is a favorite term of P.E.I. Bonewitz ,who uses it to
describe the Christians he so hates. Bonewitz helped write the
Declaration of Beliefs for Wiccans back in 1974. Blessed Be!]

Such practices were not isolated to the
South and Central Americas, there is also ample evidence that Indians
of North America practiced human sacrifices and even cannibalism as
well. Sadly, even to this very day in remote parts of Peru, people are
still sacrificed to the “mountain gods”. An incident was recorded as
recently as the 1980's and still goes on even today. Mt. Santa Barbra
near Pueno is a site where several such sacrifices have taken place. In
1982 the body of a female victim with her face painted black and her
body mutilated was found there. In Yunguyo the practice is so frequent
the Mayor circulated a petition to try to force the provincial
prosecutor’s office to investigate the occurrences. In Chile
human sacrifices occur so often that the courts recognize “compulsion
by irresistible psychic forces” as legitimate grounds for
acquittal for murder!

In 1960 after an earthquake a woman named Clara
Huenchilan sacrificed her two young children to try to “appease the
gods”. The courts did not press charges! Where Chilean authorities
discourage child sacrifice the superstitious Mapuche Indians complain
of earthquakes and droughts as retribution from their gods and
goddesses. Central and South American Shamanism is replete with stories
of blood sucking demons. In the 1980's and 1990's, kills of farm
animals in Puerto Rico which were probably the result of foxes or pumas
were said to be the work of “Chupacabra”. In August of 1986 a 9 year
old boy was murdered by a Shaman cult by having a wooden stake driven
through his heart. This was done because the boy’s grand uncle was said
to be suffering from a chronic illness caused by a “vampire”. (Raising
Hell by Michael Newton pages 194-195 ) This is what Shamanism is really
about, superstition and sacrifice. The idea of blaming every natural
disaster, illness, and crop failure on sorcery is partly what fueled
the witch hysteria of the so-called “Burning Times”, by the way. The
belief in sorcery is fueled by superstition, no matter how you look at
it.

INCAN CHILDREN WERE "FATTENED UP" BEFORE BEING SACRIFICED

LONDON 2006(Reuters) By Michael Kahn - Hair samples taken from child
mummies suggest the ancient Incas "fattened" up children chosen for
ritual sacrifice months before actually killing them, British
researchers said. A chemical analysis of four mummies found high in the
Andes mountains also indicates the Incans took the children on a
lengthy pilgrimage prior to the killings, the team said. In the case of
the 15-year-old "Llullaillaco Maiden" the road to death started at
least 12 months before.

"We are looking at a process that began a considerable amount of time
before their death," said Andrew Wilson, an archaeologist at the
University of Bradford, who led the study. "The maiden was essentially
being fattened up or prepared for her final fate at least 12 months
before her killing."

The frozen mummies, some of them extremely well preserved, come from
the world's highest archaeological site and offer insight into the
victims' backgrounds and how they were elevated in social status and
prepared for the rituals.The vast Inca empire, with its advanced
culture and powerful armies, spanned most of the Andes along South
America's western coast at the time of the Spanish conquest in the
early 16th century.

"This is the very first time we are hearing the account from the
individuals themselves -- what they were eating and when they were
separated from their normal existence and set on this path," Wilson
said.The researchers, who published their findings in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed hair samples up to 25 cm
(nearly 10 inches) long in the children aged 6 to 15.

This length represented about two-and-a-half years of hair growth,
which gave researchers a picture of the doomed children's' lives over a
fairly long period of time.Changes in isotopes, or chemical signatures,
in the earliest samples showed the children were fed a steady diet of
vegetables typical of a peasant background, Wilson said.

But in the 12 months prior to sacrifice, the diet suddenly changed to
food reserved for the elite such as maize and meat, likely representing
the children's elevated status as offerings to the gods, the
researchers said.Other isotopic changes indicate that in their final
three or four months, the children began a pilgrimage to the mountains,
likely from the Incan capital Cuzco after receiving ritual haircuts,
Wilson said.

The researchers do not know exactly how all the children died, though
at least one was killed by a blow to the head."It looks to us as though
the children were led up to the summit shrine in the culmination of a
year-long rite, drugged and then left to succumb to exposure," said
Timothy Taylor, a researcher at the University of Bradford.

African Continent and New World African Sorcery

Yes,
this sign is real.

Obviously, African countries have a problem with child sacrifice if the
governments have to make posters like the one below. The rituals of
African tribal religions many times involve the use of the blood of
animals, and even human sacrifice, and there have even been
documented instances of cannibalism. These instance have been
documented enough times that it cannot simply be dismssed as
"propaganda". Isaiah Oke, a former Ju Ju priest from Nigeria,
documented one such human sacrifice he attended, and blames Africa's
current AIDS cirisis on Ju Ju's use of human and animal blood in it's
rituals. Ju Ju is the parent religion of New World Santeria, Macumba,
Quimbanda, and Palo Mayombe, and had things in common with Voodoo.

These practices carried over into the New World as “Meseopagan”
(meaning Paganism combined with Christian symbolism) practices. Hatian
Voodoo and it’s southern U.S. counterpart involve the sacrifice of
animals. Santeria in Puerto Rico and Cuba, Macumba and Quimbanada of
Brazil. The chicken is a favorite animal of sacrifice by these
practitoners, because Chickens can be easily killed, and produce lots
of blood.

Brujaria of Mexico have rituals involving animal sacrifices, but seems
to be limited to wild birds, such as hummingbirds and woodpeckers.
Santeria’s darkest form called Abqa practices human sacrifice. The
Abaqa cult is the most feared in all of Cuba. In 1975 a play was
produced in Havana detailing the rituals of the Abqa cult. One by one
each one of the cast members turned up murdered. Some believe the
Metamoros murderers of the late 1980's was an Abaqa cult, and not
Santeria as previously thought.

New Orleans, Louisiana is Voodoo capital of the
United States. According to The Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Talant,
in the 19th century and even into the 20th century, the most revered
sacrifice that could be made was none as a “goat without horns”. This
is Voodoo lingo for an unwanted infant. In Haiti, where people don’t
have to be politically correct, no one tries to deny the sacrifices of
animals in Voodoo rituals. Once a year a bull is scarified in a
horrible ritual, where the poor animal is cut, and his blood is drunk
as the animal slowly dies (refer to the documentary Divine Horsemen:
The Living Gods if Haiti by Mayan Deren before you dismiss this).
Human sacrifice takes place as well at times.

Voodoo followers really believe that if you kill a Voodoo priest and
drink his blood, you will gain his power, as depicted in the movie
Serpent and the Rainbow. In some parts of Africa a similar
practice takes place, where family members eat the brains of their dead
relatives, thinking their souls will enter their bodies. This revolting
superstitious practice causes disease, and Western doctors are
desperately trying to convince the natives not to do this. If a place
could ever benefit from Christianity, the continent of Africa is the
place!

But to some Wiccans on the other hand, this new twist on
“brain food” sounds like a perfectly rational idea! Gavin and Yvonne
Frost of The Church of Wicca, America’s 2nd oldest Wiccan group,
have written:

“When the soul becomes a spirit, the body literally becomes a shell. It
can be burnt or used to the best advantage of those left on earth.
Pieces may be given away to hospital”; blood can be drained; or if food
is scarce and the need is urgent, it can be eaten. We must not waste
the provisions of our God. In the days before libraries existed, for
survival it was necessary to pass knowledge or training on by any means
possible. Selective cannibalism, in which the brains of the brainy and
other appropriate parts were eaten, is a simple belief in which if is
assumed that characteristics are passed on. Modern science has recently
shown that extracts from dead animals transmit trained habits when
injected into untrained animals. “(8)

Yes, you read that right; when food is scarce, just
break out the Soilent Green! Hey kids! No need to study! [munch, slurp]
Just eat the teacher's brain! “I’m not getting this algebra
problem. Hey Jimmy, give me another slice of Mrs. Crabapple’s
cerebellum!”.

This is another example of Wiccan psudeo science,
gobbledy gook, and history revision. There was never a time in human
history “before libraries existed” that people ate someone’s brain to
gain knowledge, and of course the Frost’s give no reference to how they
came to this conclusion. While some studies suggest insects may gain
information when injected with extracts from other insects, it does not
work on higher species of animals, and certainly doesn’t work on humans!

Practices like the ones mentioned are simply
cannibalism, and is one reason AIDS ravages Africa like no-where else.
Haitians practice Voodoo, which often uses parts of corpses in its
rituals, which is thought by some Medical authorities to be a reason
Haiti has a disproportionate number of AIDS cases in the Western
Hemisphere. Eating someone’s brain will not give you their
intelligence, and one wonders if the Frosts were ever sick enough to
try this. This passage from the GWB is not only unscientific, it’s just
plain creepy. What exactly are the Frost’s doing...promoting
cannibalism??? So much for trying to dispel the belief witches did
things like eating babies and practice cannibalism!

In New Orleans, the Voodoo of today has been watered down
with New Age beliefs and practices for tourists. Shops see white Voodoo
dolls used for healing spells along with crystals and Enya CDs. The
clerks in the Voodoo shops would probably laugh if you ask them about
Voodoo and Human Sacrifice. They may not know the whole truth because
they are too young to know about the Voodoo of a generation ago of New
Orleans, and said to still practiced out in the rural areas of
Louisiana and Mississippi not to mention Haiti and the African
continent. But even ritual murder in New Orleans is not unheard of
today. In 2007 a couple who owned a Voodoo supply store and occult book
shop were arrested after it was discovered they were attempting to dry
a human corpse (apparently a victim of the couple’s human sacrifice) in
their oven for use in voodoo rituals.

The Judeo-Christian
Religion Ended This Barbaric Practice In The Lands It Went Into.

In the Bible, God tests Abraham to see if he is willing to sacrifice
his only son. For some, this is one of the harder verses of the Bible.
Some have even speculated there must have been an "older version" of
the story in which Abraham actually sacrifices Issac!

In reality, no such "older version" exists, and there doesn't "have to
be", just because someone wants it to be. Why did God ask Abraham to
sacrifice Issac? For several reasons.

One reason is stated at the very beginning of the story, it was meant
to be a test for Abraham.The test wasn't to show God if Abraham would
or would not do it, it was to show Abraham himself the depth of his own
faith. The idea of God being "omniscient" (meaning he knows everything)
didn't occur until the Christian era centuries later.

Another reason...it is a testament to the Pagan people alive then
that they didn't have to sacrifice their sons and daughters to some
lifeless idol! There is a reason Christianity spread far and wide
in the formerly Pagan world, and its ban on child sacrifice was one
reason! Let's go forwards and not backwards. The Pagan religions were
abandoned by the ancient peoples because they were cruel and barbaric.
They were far from "enlightened"!

Conclusions

The Pagan religions of the Past which Neoapagnism draws
it’s inspiration from has a blood soaked history. All across the world,
Pagans engaged in the most deplorable of practices. While Christians
are falsely accused of having wiped out a village of 400 people for
witchcraft, Pagans often killed this many or ten times more just for
sport! If the sole reason for a would-be witch or warlock to abstain
from the Christian faith is the Crusades or the “Burning Times”, then
they will need a new reason. Yes, it was wrong for people to be
executed for sorcery or heresy by the civil authorities in ancient
times, but this clearly is not like the insane superstitious beliefs of
ancient Pagans that thought murdering humans as a gift “to the gods”.
Even modern Neopaganism is not free from the blood of innocents. There
are still survivors of the Judeo-Christian holocaust around, and even
Wicca’s very founder, Gerlad Gardner, killed people in a futile attempt
for magic power.
It’s scary to see how far the world has come. It’s even scarier to
think how far it will go.

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